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10.23.07Mapping California Fires
UncategorizedDanny of SearchEngineLand listed out some resources to help map out the california fires. I hope everyone is okay. LA Times Interactive Fire Map: Built on Google Maps and from the Los Angeles Times, fire icons show each major fire, and you can click on the flames for more information about the incident. This is probably the best and most widely referenced resource that I've seen. San Diego County Fires Map: From public radio station KPBS, covers incidents in the area, including evacuation centers. California Active Fire Mapper: From UC Berkeley, pinpoints ...
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10.17.07Startups at Berkeley - ST@B
Events (5)I just attended ST@B (Startups at Berkeley), an event that brings together the entrepreneurs at Berkeley. Everyone talks about startup's coming out of Stanford, but hardly anyone mentions Cal. At such a big school, it's hard to get to know fellow classmates.I think it's great that students and alumni are pushing to build up the startup spirit here. I actually wanted to organize an event like this, but they did a better job than anything I would have done. The Rundown: The event a general social networking event along with keynote speaker, James Hong of ...
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10.13.07Young Entrepreneurs Avoiding Enterprise Software
Trends (1)GigaOm reports that the young entrepreneurs are avoiding enterprise software: One need only look at the hairlines of today’s software leaders. The current wunderkinds are not looking to create the next wave of corporate computing applications, but are instead gravitating toward emerging fields, such as web 2.0, biotech, and anything "green." Moreover, when asking today's business software leaders if they would recommend their kids to start a business in the same field, 29% said "no":
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10.12.07Yossi, Young Entrepreneurs, and the Arena
Startup (1)5:51am and I should be studying for my EE midterm tomorrow today, but I've just been distracted by this inspirational post. Yossi Vardi, the orginal investor in ICQ and a believer in young entrepreners, uses Roosevelt's 1910 speech to give an analogy to today's entrepreneurs in the area: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is ...
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10.11.07China’s Tudou.com Bigger than Youtube?
ChinaMarking Youtube's its 1-year Google acquisition; TechCrunch compares Youtube and its numerous competitors. However, on the other side of the Pacific hides a dark horse - Tudou.com, the most popular online video website in China. I just watched an interview of Tudou's founders, Gary Wang and Marc Vander Chijs. Wang makes an interesting remark, stating that Todou serves 15 billion minutes per month as opposed to Youtube's 3.5 billion. A big contributor to Tudou's numbers could be its copyrighted content. Wang does state that its users often ...
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10.10.07IPhone/Touch v1.1.1 Jailbreak Confirmed
AppleWord on the street is that the read/write access has been gained for the iPhone and iPod Touch v1.1.1. This means that 3rd party applications are now available. Thanks Niacin! They are now inviting beta testers, but not yet releasing open to public. The jailbreak was discovered through a TIFF exploit that was used to hack previous firmware on the PSP. Loading a certain TIFF file will cause a buffer overflow on the mobile Safari, allowing hackers to run their own code. Details: ==Terminal== iphuc 0.6.1 with tab completion. >> By The iPhoneDev Team: nightwatch geohot ...
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10.08.07Cloud Computing for Students
College, ProgrammingGoogle and IBM have teamed up to provide data centers to help students and researchers write software for large-scale applications. This is a large push for colleges to emphasize the needs of parallel computing; it is a relatively new field not taught traditionally at the undergrad level. In addition, the number of computer science majors have been on the decline and "industry executives and computer scientists say a shortage of skills and talent could limit future growth." Randal E. Bryant, dean of the computer science school at Carnegie Mellon University, states ...
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10.06.07Web 3.0 or Whatever You Want to Call It
TrendsBuzz word "Web 3.0" has gotten a lot of attention this week. Calacanis defines the term as "the creation of high-quality content and services produced by gifted individuals using Web 2.0 technology as an enabling platform." Smith states it "will be a mobile web revolution." Tim O'Reilly, the man who coined Web 2.0, comes in and helps clear up the mess. I mostly agree with him; the bottom line is that the next internet surge, Web 3.0 or whatever you want to call it, will only come when there is a radical change in the underlying technology ...
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10.05.07Chinese to English Annotations
ProgrammingA while ago, I made a tool that annotates Chinese to English. The Chinese language is particularly hard because the characters are not phonetic. In order to read, you must memorize each character one by one. I just wanted a simple program that shows me the pronounications, and many websites are too bloated. With China always in the news, I figured I'll share the site. Here is the link to my Chinese to English Annotater. Note that it is not a translator. That is an entirely different problem, which requires much much much harder algorithms....
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Writer: Jeff Wang. I am currently a student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science. Most posts will be dedicated to young entreprenuers.
My previous work experience include Microsoft and TechCrunch. I am an aspiring entrepreneur.
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